CN1203499A - Method for updating electronic program guide information and device thereof in digital TV receiver - Google Patents

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CN1203499A
CN1203499A CN98108378A CN98108378A CN1203499A CN 1203499 A CN1203499 A CN 1203499A CN 98108378 A CN98108378 A CN 98108378A CN 98108378 A CN98108378 A CN 98108378A CN 1203499 A CN1203499 A CN 1203499A
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Abstract

A device for updating EPG information in a digital TV receiver having a first tuner and a second tuner while viewing a channel selected by the first tuner, including first and second IF modules, first and second channel decoders, a first TS decoder, a second TS decoder, a memory and a controller.

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Upgrade the method and the equipment thereof of electronic program guide information in the digital television receiver
The present invention relates to a kind of Digital Television (abbreviating " TV " hereinafter as), more particularly, relate to a kind of method and equipment thereof that is used to upgrade Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information.
Digit broadcasting system of future generation such as HDTV (high definition TV) can distribute necessary bit rate many-sidedly when needing desired service.That is to say, might transmit many programs by RF (radio frequency) channel with limited transmission band.For example, on the cycle sometime standard definition television (SDTV) program is being arranged on the multichannel, and the HDTV program can be installed on the single channel on another time cycle.This conception of species is exactly that (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting: Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting), this ISDB quilt is at all ITU-R (International Telecommunications Union's radio communication subregion: the basic conception that is referenced as digit broadcasting system in international conference International Telecommunication Unio-RadioCommunication Sector) for so-called ISDB.
Therefore, be necessary to make digital multichannel TV broadcasting display program guide information on the TV screen, so that the user can select a desired program from several programs.In the U.S., for formulated the concrete EPG rule of a cover such as the digital broadcasting of HDTV.That is to say that TV station is by each RF channel emission EPG information, and television set is stored EPG information and when the user needs it is presented on the TV screen.An example of this EPG rule is the EPG standard of U.S. ATSC (U.S. advanced television standard committee).
By watching channel, promptly selected current channel can receive such information, therefore when before the information previous EPG information of storing before when being different from up-to-date information will be by up-to-date information updating.
In addition, very possible is, each TV station's its EPG information of emission, and the user can only watch special channel.In this case, the EPG information of other channel except that current channel can not be updated, and therefore, although the EPG information of channel has been changed, television set still has the old EPG information that is different from new EPG information.Therefore, on other channel except that selected current channel, provide wrong EPG information to the user.Therefore, if the user wants to watch other not have EPG information on the selecteed channel, then must interrupt current TV channel, and be transformed on another channel of interested EPG information.
As mentioned above, the EPG information on current channel can be updated, and the EPG information on another channel that the user does not watch can not be updated, and perhaps current TV channel must be interrupted, and is transformed into another and wants to watch on the channel of its EPG information.
Therefore, the purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of handle is updated to up-to-date correct EPG information immediately about the EPG information on all channels of digital television method and equipment thereof.
According to the present invention, a kind of equipment that is used for upgrading at the digital TV receiver with first and second tuners EPG information when watching by the channel of being selected by first tuner is provided, it comprises: first and second IF (intermediate frequency) module, its each will be according to channel selection and become corresponding base band from the IF conversion of signals of first and second tuners output; First and second channel decoders, its each baseband signal from the described first and second IF modules is converted to channel signals so that the reconstruct data bit stream; The one TS (transport stream) decoder is used for from isolating each voice data, video data and EPG data by the described digital bit stream of the first channel decoder reconstruct; The 2nd TS decoder is used for from isolating auxiliary data by the data bit stream of the second channel decoder reconstruct; Memory is used to store EPG information; And controller, be used for adopting the EPG Data Update memory that separates from the data bit stream that obtains by other channel of selecting by second tuner by the 2nd TS decoder.
With way of example the present invention is described more specifically below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, in the accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 is the block diagram of EPG information updating device according to an embodiment of the invention; With
Fig. 2 is according to the process chart of embodiments of the invention at the microprocessor shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1 is the block diagram that shows the EPG information updating device, and this EPG information updating device is applied on the HDTV receiver that adopts mpeg standard, has omitted the component units that does not have direct relation with the present invention in the drawings.With reference to figure 1, when receiving the digital TV broadcasting signal by antenna 120, first tuner 100 is selected the TV channel under the control of microprocessor 116, thereby produces the IF signal.The one IF module 102 becomes baseband signal to the IF conversion of signals that transmits from first tuner 100 and come.First channel decoder 104 becomes channel signals so that the reconstruct data bit stream with above-mentioned baseband signal decoding.
The one TS decoder is isolated voice data, video data and auxiliary data from the data bit stream by 104 reconstruct of first channel decoder, thereby isolates the Voice ﹠ Video data in the program that receives by the RF channel from the program of being selected by microprocessor 116.The data based mpeg standard of the Voice ﹠ Video of Fen Liing is respectively by corresponding audio and video decoder decodes like this, and in view of the above, consequential signal is processed, thereby exports with the form of audio frequency and picture signal.In addition, the auxiliary data that contains EPG information is sent in the microprocessor 116.
When receiving the digital TV broadcasting signal by antenna 120, second tuner 108 is selected the TV channel under the control of microprocessor 116, thereby produces the IF signal.The 2nd IF module 110 becomes baseband signal to the IF conversion of signals from 108 outputs of second tuner.Second channel decoder becomes channel signals so that the reconstruct data bit stream with above-mentioned baseband signal decoding.The 2nd TS decoder 114 is isolated auxiliary data from the data bit stream by 112 reconstruct of second channel decoder.The auxiliary data of Fen Liing also comprises the above-mentioned EPG information of waiting to be sent to microprocessor 116 like this.
In addition, memory 118 comprises: the ROM that is used for the program of storage microprocessor 116; The RAM that is used for the data that program drew of interim storage running microprocessor 116; With the EEPROM that is used to store various reference datas.Above-mentioned EPG information is stored in the memory 118 by microprocessor 116.Above-mentioned microprocessor 116 is as the controller of the HDTV receiver that comprises unit shown in Figure 1, and then controls the overall operation of the various functions of HDTV receiver according to the program in the memory 118 of being stored in.
Above-mentioned first and second tuners, 100,108, the first and second IF module 102,110, the first and second channel decoders, 104,112, the first and second TS decoders 106,114 and memory 118 link together by bus 120 and microprocessor 116.
Fig. 2 is the process chart of microprocessor 116, its expression is selected the current channel of watching by first tuner 100, second tuner 108 is searched for all channels automatically, thereby from by identification the 2nd TS decoder 114 isolated auxiliary datas about the EPG information of each channel, and upgrade EPG information, so that the EPG information that storage is updated in memory 118.Function according to the handling process of Fig. 2 is programmed in the memory 118.
Below in conjunction with of the operation of Fig. 1 and 2 detailed description according to the embodiment of the invention.When opening TV receiver or user's converted channel, microprocessor 116 is selected current channel by first tuner 100 in step 200.In view of the above, first tuner 100 produces the IF signal of current channel, and this IF signal is converted into baseband signal so that further convert channel signals to by first channel decoder 104 then, and thus, the signal that draws is applied on the TS decoder 106.In view of the above, a TS decoder 106 produces current Voice ﹠ Video data of watching channel, so that output audio and picture signal, at this moment, the auxiliary data of being separated by a TS decoder 106 is applied in the microprocessor 116.
In this state, in step 202, microprocessor 116 is by second tuner 108 other channel of automatic inspection in turn one by one, thereby receive about the EPG information of each channel old EPG information with updated stored, whether and processing procedure enters into step 204, be changed with the EPG information of checking current channel.In addition, it is identical with conventional method to upgrade the operation of the EPG information on each channel.That is to say, when checking each channel, the current EPG information that microprocessor 116 will be included in from the auxiliary data that the 2nd TS decoder 114 receives compares with the previous EPG information that is stored in the memory 118, if both differences, then upgrade EPG information, so as with the up-to-date EPG information stores that receives in memory 118.
For the purpose of reference, the TV receiver that comprises HDTV is typically provided with the automatic channel audit function, this automatic channel audit function is checked current received each channel of all TV channels, to store corresponding EPG information, wherein this function is programmed by this way, promptly has only current received channel just automatically to be checked.As mentioned above, when the user presses that channel rises that (channel-up) key or channel descend (channel-down) key and when individually not selecting channel by numerical key, these channels that do not have to receive just can not selected meaninglessly, thereby can use the automatic channel audit function easily.
Therefore, in step 202, to the current received TV channel of each EPG information check, and checked each EPG information is updated to the EPG information of nearest reception.
Therefore, by the means of second tuner 108, can be independent of the current channel of watching and be updated to and remain up-to-date content rapidly about the EPG information of all channels.Therefore, always the inventive method can be promptly for the user provides up-to-date and correct EPG information, and no matter the current channel of watching, and do not need converted channel yet.
Although invention has been described by certain embodiments, should be noted that, can under the prerequisite that does not depart from order of the present invention, carry out various modifications.Specifically, the above embodiment of the present invention has only shown an example about the HDTV receiver, and still, the present invention can be applied in all digital TV receivers that use the EPG information system.And, although having demonstrated, top embodiment is used to upgrade the automatic channel inspection method of EPG information, the present invention can also be provided for only checking the method for the EPG information of the remaining channel except that the current channel of watching, this method has an advantage, that is exactly that the EPG information of the current channel of watching can be sent in the microprocessor 116 from a TS decoder 106, and is unnecessaryly checked individually by second tuner 108.In addition, when needs, might only from the desired channel of user, check EPG information to be updated.Therefore, top embodiment must not be interpreted as restriction to the present invention itself.Therefore, the scope of the present invention claim that must be dropped on all such changes and modifications among the spirit and scope of the present invention by appended covering is determined.
As mentioned above, the present invention has following advantage: the EPG of all channels of relevant digital TV receiver Information can promptly be upgraded and always be kept up-to-date content, and can change channel and just can For the user provides rapidly current non-selected up-to-date and correct EPG information.

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1. a method that is used for upgrading Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information of the digital television receiver with two tuners comprises the steps:
Select the current channel of watching by using a tuner in the described tuner; With
Check that by using another tuner in the described tuner channel receives and upgrade the described EPG information of each channel.
2. the method for renewal as claimed in claim 1 EPG information wherein saidly treats that checked information is preset by the user.
3. the method for renewal as claimed in claim 1 EPG information wherein saidly treats that checked channel is the remaining channel except that the described current channel of watching.
4. the method for renewal as claimed in claim 1 EPG information wherein saidly treats that checked channel is all current received channels.
5. equipment that is used for upgrading Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information of digital television receiver comprises:
First and second tuners, each all is used to select channel;
The first and second IF modules, each all will become corresponding baseband signal according to the IF conversion of signals that channel selection is exported from described first and second tuners;
First and second channel decoders, each is all decoded from the baseband signal of described first and second IF modules output, thus the reconstruct data bit stream;
The one TS decoder is used for from isolating each voice data, video data and auxiliary data by the described data bit stream of the described first channel decoder reconstruct;
The 2nd TS decoder is used for from isolating auxiliary data by the described data bit stream of the described second channel decoder reconstruct;
Memory is used to store described EPG information; With
Controller, be used for by using described first tuner to select under the current condition of watching channel, by using described second tuner to check channel, confirm each channel receives in the auxiliary data described EPG information and to the described EPG information of described memory updating.
6. the equipment of the EPG information of renewal digital television receiver as claimed in claim 5 wherein saidly treats that checked channel is preset by the user.
7. the equipment of the EPG information of renewal digital television receiver as claimed in claim 5 wherein saidly treats that checked channel is except that the described current remaining channel of watching the channel.
8. the equipment of the EPG information of renewal digital television receiver as claimed in claim 5, wherein all received channels are automatically to check by the automatic channel audit program of described controller.
9. the equipment of the EPG information of renewal digital television receiver as claimed in claim 5, wherein said controller is a microprocessor.
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